Wicked Alpha

by Lauren Courcelle

Overview

And action... Coral's wedding... Harley's promo tour... and a positive pregnancy test... and that's all before Labor Day. Welcome to senior year, Persephone. Only... none of it's real... or is it?

Persephone Smith doesn't live her life in what-if scenarios... until the Universe forces her to do exactly that. The cliché, "Be careful what you wish for," might just be her senior year mantra because by using her natural powers to right the one night that ruined her life, she sets in motion a series of alternate realities that completely destroy HER reality. Just when that seems like the best possible outcome, she learns otherwise. Clearly, the Universe has a lesson for her, but what? Could it be as simple as Persephone learning to accept her fate and face the twists and turns that life sends her way head on, without intervening with magic? Even so, will she, or will she continue to rely on her powers to make her life the happily ever after of her dreams? And how WILL she get back to the reality she's always known? Better question... would she even want to be there anymore?

Oh, and why on earth is there a SECOND book seven, too?

Join Persephone and her friends, family, and foes for one last year in Pine Hill, Vermont, before the gang disperses for college. Wicked Alpha is the first seventh book in the Persephone Smith series by author Lauren Courcelle and marks the third young adult novel in the coming-of-age, realistic, paranormal, fantasy saga.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781078712293
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/14/2019
Series:	Persephone Smith , #7
Pages:	466
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Lauren Courcelle has lived in Vermont all of her life, but if she admitted how long that is, she'd be revealing her age, so don't expect her to confess it! As a child, she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up (because she liked to write on the chalkboard), but as a teacher, she realized that being able to have a daily impact on students, particularly when inspiring them to become lifelong lovers of literature, was the best part of the job. She left the field for a few years to try her hand at phlebotomy, and although she rarely missed veins, she certainly missed her students and yearned to share great children's books with them once again. Her aspirations were bigger than merely reading to young people; she wanted to write for them, too, so in May 2011, she pursued her dream of writing a picture book. Nearly 400 pages later, a chapter book, surprisingly, emerged from her efforts. That book was Wicked Normal. With it, Lauren immediately knew that protagonist Persephone Smith's story would be told via a twelve-book series. Having heard that traditional publishers frowned on authors marking their debut with a series, she opted to self-publish her first novel. She released the second book, Wicked Weird, less than six months later. The third, Wicked Awesome, was published within a year of the first. The fourth book of the series, Wicked Dramatic, marked Persephone's last year of middle school and the series' final "Middle Grades" novel, appropriate for precocious, younger readers (Ages 9+). When Lauren, herself, was in seventh grade, she stopped reading because the library ran out of books she wanted to read. Her librarian recommended a YA selection, but its content was too mature for her liking, so she returned it and didn't check anything else out. Consequently, the first four books of her debut series were crafted with her seventh grade self in mind - oodles of pages, lots of humor, tons of fun, the influence of Karmic magic, an abundance of innocence, colorful covers, and, of course, the occasional unicorn - without sugarcoating what it's truly like to be that age. Once readers are ready for YA (Ages 13+), Wicked Confessions, Wicked Together, Wicked Alpha, and Wicked Omega will be waiting with the tale of Persephone's high school years. From there, the final five books journey to college and beyond. Lauren continues to reside in Vermont and enjoys going to concerts, knitting scarves, making beaded jewelry, painting, and spending time with her family.